Hey blog junkies,
been a busy week at man alive, so unfortunately i didn't get to interview a kangaroo BUT I WILL, however not this week. hopefully next week. Just keep tuned in for it.
We decided this week that we are going to make 3 sketches a week and post them on youtube and probably on here as well, so make sure you have a look and tell us what you think. We expect some of them to be a little crazy, but just trying to experiment
Love and Peace, enjoy the sketches! (only got two this week so far but are filming one this avo)
STEWIE!!
Friday, 6 March 2009
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Crushing Blow
Hey people who read our blogs,
A fairly stinging defeat for the man ALIVE guys today. We entered Empire magazine's "Done in 60 Seconds" competition, (remake a famous film, make it last 60 seconds), which we did quite well in last year (top 10).
Well, results are in and man ALIVE were asked to stay at home again this year, not making it into the top 5, or even the top 13. So thats pretty bad, but pair it with the fact one of the top 5 films was made by another Dundee film maker, and you can probably tell we're feeling a bit down. Of course we're happy for the success of the other Dundee guys and their film Roverfield, and i'll be voting for them to win for sure, flying the Dundee banner and all that.
Check out Cloverfield/Roverfield at: http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/done-in-60-seconds/
here's ours. Hope you enjoy them.
Stu
A fairly stinging defeat for the man ALIVE guys today. We entered Empire magazine's "Done in 60 Seconds" competition, (remake a famous film, make it last 60 seconds), which we did quite well in last year (top 10).
Well, results are in and man ALIVE were asked to stay at home again this year, not making it into the top 5, or even the top 13. So thats pretty bad, but pair it with the fact one of the top 5 films was made by another Dundee film maker, and you can probably tell we're feeling a bit down. Of course we're happy for the success of the other Dundee guys and their film Roverfield, and i'll be voting for them to win for sure, flying the Dundee banner and all that.
Check out Cloverfield/Roverfield at: http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/done-in-60-seconds/
here's ours. Hope you enjoy them.
Stu
Friday, 27 February 2009
Animal Art
Hey man ALIVErs,
Stu again here with another sweet blog. If you read yesterday's post then you'll have tried to check out the websites I mentioned because they sound way cool. Unfortunately due to technical issues the websites aren't working. I can only apologise but perhaps this will make up for it.
Watch this!
Peace and love x
Stu
Stu again here with another sweet blog. If you read yesterday's post then you'll have tried to check out the websites I mentioned because they sound way cool. Unfortunately due to technical issues the websites aren't working. I can only apologise but perhaps this will make up for it.
Watch this!
Peace and love x
Stu
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Not As Funny As Limmy?
Hi man ALIVE fans, Stu here!
Its been aaaaa(ages)aaa long time since I last blogged, I usually let my employee Liam do all the company communications whilst I attend to more important matters like photoshopping moustaches, monacles and pipes onto the faces of well known animal stars. Feel free to check these out at www.highbrow-animalhumour.com or www.pets-of-sherlockholmes.com
Anyway, its been an incredible day for man ALIVE Studios today. We took an early morning road trip through to Dundee's west-coast big sister, Glasgow and visited some very nice people at The Comedy Unit, (producers of Chewing the Fat and Rab C Nesbit) to talk a bit about our blossoming careers. To put it bluntly, and that is how it was put to us, we've got nothing. Its true, we made one comedy piece that won a competition a year ago, and have somehow been given the opportunity to talk to top industry people about...US!
"You're not the best, but you're not the worst" is a phrase that was used, most graciously and honestly, in our meeting this morning, but despite being no further forward in our attempts to achieve Andy Millmanism (check out extras for the reference), we couldn't be more excited about our future in Comedy.
And this is great for all our viewers too because we've realised just how much more quality entertainment we need to produce in order to break through. So I'm starting by getting everyone geared up for a daily stream of man ALIVE blogging and twittering.
You MUST check us out. Comment us and we'll get back to you and when we get big you can show your friends that you were there in the beginning!
Alright, peace and love
Stu
Its been aaaaa(ages)aaa long time since I last blogged, I usually let my employee Liam do all the company communications whilst I attend to more important matters like photoshopping moustaches, monacles and pipes onto the faces of well known animal stars. Feel free to check these out at www.highbrow-animalhumour.com or www.pets-of-sherlockholmes.com
Anyway, its been an incredible day for man ALIVE Studios today. We took an early morning road trip through to Dundee's west-coast big sister, Glasgow and visited some very nice people at The Comedy Unit, (producers of Chewing the Fat and Rab C Nesbit) to talk a bit about our blossoming careers. To put it bluntly, and that is how it was put to us, we've got nothing. Its true, we made one comedy piece that won a competition a year ago, and have somehow been given the opportunity to talk to top industry people about...US!
"You're not the best, but you're not the worst" is a phrase that was used, most graciously and honestly, in our meeting this morning, but despite being no further forward in our attempts to achieve Andy Millmanism (check out extras for the reference), we couldn't be more excited about our future in Comedy.
And this is great for all our viewers too because we've realised just how much more quality entertainment we need to produce in order to break through. So I'm starting by getting everyone geared up for a daily stream of man ALIVE blogging and twittering.
You MUST check us out. Comment us and we'll get back to you and when we get big you can show your friends that you were there in the beginning!
Alright, peace and love
Stu
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Happy 2009!
Okay, it's a little late, but, considering the frequency at which we've been posting blogs here, it could've been a lot worse!
Hope everyone is keeping well? We've been hard at work (most of the time) and would like to kick things off with our newest video; a promo for this year's "Dare to be Digital" competition.
Hope you enjoyed it! It was great to work with people like Mario and Solid Snake. We even managed to grab an interview with the plumber himself!
He was a little threatening...
Anyways, we'll try to keep you posted on all that's happening here over the next 12 months, and who knows, maybe someone will read it!
L.
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
Hope everyone is keeping well? We've been hard at work (most of the time) and would like to kick things off with our newest video; a promo for this year's "Dare to be Digital" competition.
Hope you enjoyed it! It was great to work with people like Mario and Solid Snake. We even managed to grab an interview with the plumber himself!
He was a little threatening...
Anyways, we'll try to keep you posted on all that's happening here over the next 12 months, and who knows, maybe someone will read it!
L.
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
Monday, 17 November 2008
Sheep vs Man - Get a Good Camera!
In the month of August, man ALIVE Studios had a visit from the wise and mighty Justyn Rowe (of MediaJR in Florida). He became our very own Yoda, dispensing production wisdom with every utterance. We learned a great deal from working with Justyn, but one of the first things he spoke to us about was the importance of getting a really good camera.
Most of our work up to that point had been with the Sony HDR-SR1, which is not a bad little piece of hardware, but Justyn showed us some of the work he'd been doing with his own camera and it blew our minds. Take a look at this daft video we did below to see what we mean - it's just us running around in a field being idiots, while Justyn takes some footage without putting any real effort in...
Look how beautiful the image is!
Anyway, Justyn pointed us in the direction of the Sony EX1. More on that later!
L.
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
www.myspace.com/manalivestudios
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
Most of our work up to that point had been with the Sony HDR-SR1, which is not a bad little piece of hardware, but Justyn showed us some of the work he'd been doing with his own camera and it blew our minds. Take a look at this daft video we did below to see what we mean - it's just us running around in a field being idiots, while Justyn takes some footage without putting any real effort in...
Look how beautiful the image is!
Anyway, Justyn pointed us in the direction of the Sony EX1. More on that later!
L.
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
www.myspace.com/manalivestudios
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
Thursday, 18 September 2008
"We are on a journey..."
Good day!
Here is our latest adventure. It has everything, from cops with automatic weapons, to secret government filming, to giant bugs lurking in public toilets.
And here's the news story which came next!
Keep your eyes freshly peeled and your ears pushed groundwards.
man ALIVE are comin' at ya. Like cleopatra.
L.
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
www.myspace.com/manalivestudios
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
Here is our latest adventure. It has everything, from cops with automatic weapons, to secret government filming, to giant bugs lurking in public toilets.
And here's the news story which came next!
Keep your eyes freshly peeled and your ears pushed groundwards.
man ALIVE are comin' at ya. Like cleopatra.
L.
www.manalivestudios.co.uk
www.youtube.com/manalivestudios
www.myspace.com/manalivestudios
www.youtube.com/manaliveblog
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